Virtue Ethics and Human Enhancement
This book shows how pressing issues in bioethics – e.g. the ownership of biological material and human cognitive enhancement – successfully can be discussed with in a virtue ethics framework. This is not intended as a complete or exegetic account of virtue ethics. Rather, the aim here is to discuss...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
2013, 2013
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2013 |
| Series: | SpringerBriefs in Ethics
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- chapter 1 The problem
- chapter 2 The good life
- chapter 3 The biological obstacles
- chapter 4; Aristotle’s virtues and how to acquire them
- chapter 5 Examples of useful capacities
- chapter 6 Critique of virtue ethics
- chapter 7 Three enhancement methods
- chapter 8 Conclusion